Monday, December 30, 2013

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Hi hi! Received my new hair extension today and i love it so much i had to share my photos with you! No need to keep your hair long until so "chee chum" ... Cutting my hair short was a decision i never regretted. I had lesser and lesser hair after I gave birth and it was not possible to leave it long. Well, with today's great inventions, anything seems possible!
Show you my short hair now.
Then the long hair image of me after i put in the clip on. Wahaha ... i guess i still look younger and more woman with long hair. It is ok. Short hair is better for me now as a mummy. Whenever I feel like long hair just put on clip on lor!

I have used many hair extensions before. Real hair, synthetic hair, you name it I have it. This particular brand i love it and it is very affordable and realistic. My favourite so far!

By the way, this clip on is 70gm each pack.To achieve my look in the photo I used 2 package. In each pack there are a mixture of different width of hair bunch (4 clips, 3 clips, 2 clips and 1 clip).

Saturday, December 7, 2013

My tarot card series - Fear
Long time since i put in a tarot card. Miss doing self portraits. Mus find time.
Words from Ting : Every model infront of the camera is like an actress/actor. You act the expression for the picture you wanna create. You tell the story with your eyes. It has nvr been abt the clothes you wear. It's always been abt ur soul.

In this group, the members are allowed to sell their preloved fashion items for Male, Female and Children/Babies. I also allow sellers of handmade fashion items to have an album in the group which they can run as a stall.

I am pretty strict on approving members and deleting spammers for this group and I am pretty happy to say that we have a healthy and sincere group in my hands. Of course, there will still be some online sellers lurking around clearing their stock but well... I try my best to ensure everyone follows the rules.

Those who are surprised to hear about this, just check the links out and add yourself as members and follow! Then start selling and buying!

I really am a person who encourage handmade items and I really would love to see more people of this genre to join us in Ting's Closet! Especially mummies who work at home and taking care of the children at the same time. I will support you!

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To facilitate sellers, I am pleased to introduce a polymailer vendor who can provide good quality, light weight polymailers which are lovely and really TOO affordable.

Do not use paper envelopes already because they tear easily, they get wet and they are easily opened. All these result in lost items. What is more? You need to use scotch-tapes and paste until the whole package look like it is injured and just mailed out from ER but cannot help and still pray that it does not meet with any further mishap.

Little Dollhouse Polymailers come in a wide range of different colours and sizes to fit
your items. They are more durable, stretchable and lighter! I know because I always buy stuff from them and I always "vomit blood" when I try to open the mailers to take the items out from the mailers using only bare hands. It is impossible. Typically, people use the scissors, but as lazy and busy as I am, I never fail to attempt using bare hands but fail every single time as well... it just demonstrates repeatedly to me how tough their mailers are and as if once they are sealed... they have a mission to make sure the items in them reach the buyer safe and sound. LOL.

The most important factor that everyone are switching to polymailers will have to be that it is waterproof BUT marker ink smudge-proof. Percentage of having your mails lost is even LOWER!

It also has self adhesive that gives you ease of use. As their slogan says : SLIP IT, SEAL IT, SEND IT. Best reason will be that it is cheaper than paper envelopes with each costing as low as S$0.17 (for
the smallest size) and it's also biodegradable (think for your kid's future, save the earth) ! :D

Online sellers who are using the paper envelopes, this is your alarm clock. DUH! It is old fashion and not cost effective at all! Think of your corporate image please! Those online blogshop owners who are also thinking to get a pretty coloured/designed
polymailer to represent your corporate image, please approach Joyce to
chat about it. She will be so glad to help you.

These is the size chart and also shows the colours you can choose from.

NOW, do not go away yet! Another good stuff to share with you!
This is for SANRIO LOVERS!! Many of my clients and friends knows that I like Hello Kitty. I even received present of Hello Kitty stuff from clients as gift of appreciation for my hard work before... hehe...

Ho ho ho... Christmas is here soon and I am pretty sure this will help some of you decide to buy what for Christmas for your princesses and princes at home! Honestly, I am not a child but I also would love one of these if I do work in the office.

You can personalize these stamps with your/ your child's names and can receive them within 3 days with free postage! After you receive then you can start to chop chop chop away hahaha.... So cute! I love the melody designs and the hello kitty ones.

"Swee la.... " Still have lots more lots more designs. I really think if I really paste all the pictures it will deprive me of even more sleep. So you guys go go go see their fb or website.

OK. To be honest, they sell many other stuff other than polymailers and the sanrio stamps. Actually they have a LOT of goodies. You should really pay a visit to their facebook and I am quite certain you would bookmark them because you would not want to lose their contacts for the interesting stuff that they have to offer.

As a side track, the owners of the Little Dollhouse are nice and pleasant and very helpful. I have been a loyal customer to their online service. They have no temper. No impatience. Really great online sellers that you would love.

Sunday, November 24, 2013

*Updated with Calis' Writeup on her Experience! Thanks Calis for your contribution!

From Calis : Why did I do it?
People have told me I have big eyes but due to my single eyelids, they were not obvious. Only when I had sessions with Ting then my big eyes will come out under her skills. During the makeup workshop, we were discussing about it and this little seed took root and somehow I just made a decision and contacted the TCS Aesthetic Clinic at Central for an appointment.1st Appointment
The clinic is very popular even with appointments; there is still quite a long waiting time. The first appointment was for one of the doctors to access if my eyes were suitable for the procedure and they would use the eyelid sticks to stimulate a fold to roughly estimate how it would look. They would also take photos to record how you look.
After this appointment, I booked my surgery date (actually it’s not exactly a surgery). Payment was around $500 plus as deposit and part of the overall costs.

Surgery Day
Long wait! There were also quite a few forms to fill up. The staff would stimulate the eyelid folds again to show what options were available. I needed to decide how high the fold will be and also if I wanted it to be parallel or starting from the inner corner of my eyes. I went for mid height and parallel. I was not advised to go any higher as the fold will not be able to fold over naturally at the inner corners of my eyes. This took quite a long time as I had to resist the urge to blink after the staff does the fold and do markings with a pen. After the markings were finally done, they photographed me again for records. I still had to wait for the doctor doing the surgery to be free. During this period, I paid for and collected all my medication and also the healing aid – it was optional and payable. The overall fees plus meds and all came to about $2.7K

Surgery ProcessOnce I am showed into the surgery room, everything moved very quickly. It was over in around less than 30 minutes. It hurt most when the doctor injected the anaesthetic into the eyelids as the skin is very thin. I almost regretted the whole decision at that moment. Luckily the pain faded very fast. However, I must say… the sensation is not pleasant. I could feel that the doctor is stitching your eyelids as you can feel the thread on your face and also sometimes he will press against my face and I can feel my lids being pulled on. The doctor and the assistant would do a count to make sure all the stitches were in place. I could open my eyes but it was not pleasant as the skin has been pulled up. The assistant helped me into another room where I was told to rest for half an hour and she applied an ice bag to my lids to help with the swelling.
The after effects of the surgery actually looked a little scary… I was pretty shocked. My eyelids looked grossly swollen and one side of my left lid was sticking out in a strange angle. There was also a pulling sensation making it a little uncomfortable. Remember to bring sunglasses to hide behind when going home.Healing Period
The first few days swelling will be horrid and it is advisable to get an ice pack and keep using it to bring the swelling down. For me, it was not painful so I did not really finish the pain killers but took the anti-swelling medication more seriously. I also went out wearing glasses so that the swollen lids were not so obvious. During this period, it would be best not to take any seafood or food that might cause inflammation. I needed to use eyedrops as my eyes were drier due to the lids being pulled up slightly. This would go away as healing took place.
It took about 1-2 weeks for the swelling to come down so it would be very hard to hide the fact I did something to my eyes so I was pretty upfront about it to colleagues. The 1st review with the doctor is in around 1 week after surgery day for the doctor to check how the stitches were healing. Only after 1 week then it was ok to use makeup etc on lids. Doctor also advise to use eyeliner to cover up how swollen the eyelids were.
It took about 1 month or so to be fully recovered and there was a 2nd review for the doctor to check and take photo records. Then that was it!
Thanks to Calis for allowing me to post this before and after picture. This is to benefit the girls who has single eyelids and have to paste eyelids stickers daily.

Calis finally set her mind during the makeup party to do the double eyelid stitching after she saw how big hers eyes were actually if she had double eyelids. She has done it recently and has healed completely. She updated me from the time she did her procedure till she healed (est abt 2 weeks).

We are both excited to see how successful the mini surgery is. She is now a double eyelid big eye babe compared to the single eyelid she used to have. Super freaking natural! In fact her double eyelids look more real than my born with double eye lids! Faint.

She has done a few shoots with me and I have seen how big her eyes are if we converted her single eyelids to double. Thus from the transformation makeup she had done, it more or less have boosted her confidence to go for the double eyelid procedure to improve her outlook permanently.

With her graciousness to share this, I am sharing an option to those girls who have always dreaded their single eyelids to go for this procedure because rather than being single eyelid and not confident of your look, you could get them converted and be happy and confident moving forward! It is a really bearable procedure with minimum pain (every individual has different pain threshold) and an affordable one (my opinion). You do not have to be low esteemed for your whole life due to the single eyelids that you do not really like. You have a choice to change your life. This applies only to those girls who prefers double eyelids. There are of course girls who love their single eyelids and look great with them!

This is not an advertorial but we are sharing the information of her procedure to benefit my followers. She is volunteering her testimonial exclusively to my followers.

Calis had her procedure performed at TCS central mall. She spent in all about 2.7k (might be different because it depends on individual's medical complications and subject to clinic's rate). It is assured by the doctor that it is "revertable"and "editable". However, I need to highlight that for any good reviews, there are bound to be unforeseen circumstances for every individual. You need to have your own judgement and good grasp of your own medical history. Do share what you like and worries with the doctor. Hopefully you can achieve your own success story. With any medical surgery, there are bound to have its risk. You need to know and find out all the pros and cons personally from the doctor before subjecting yourself to any surgical operation.

I hereby clarify that I am not directly or indirectly encouraging cosmetic surgery or surgery at the mentioned clinic. I am merely sharing an information on my platform and providing a testimonial from a friend's experience. You are not to hold me responsible for any choice that you make after seeing this post. You make your own choice. Good luck!

I will update again with her thoughts before and after she did her procedure. (Done~!)

Being a photographer and makeover consultant, I am "supposed" to be quite a guru in fashion and beauty stuff. Well, because of my not so pretty fingers, nails are always the element of beauty that I have never been good nor focused at. I am kind of good with art but not so with my left hand. Hehe...

I always envied those customers who come for photoshoot with beautiful art on their nails. Baby-sitting, photoshoots and editing were really enough to keep me away from sleeping enough. STILL... the temptation of having beautiful art on my nails has always been lurking around inside my brain.

Yes... yes... I am always home because my studio/office is at home and after I gave birth to Titus, I always carried him around everywhere. If people are to walk pass us or approach us will probably only look at the sweetie inside my carrier and not even notice me. Some even think I am his maid. (One incident some auntie in a bus ever asked me if I work for Titus ).

So why do I even need to have beautiful nails? My answer? Pure indulgence. It feels good to look at something pretty. Point made?/.

Honestly, I have a gelish manicure DIY set at home. Recently, I bought it from my regular online seller. I tested it and actually was kind of pleased with it. I even took a picture of the gelish manicure I did for myself and posted proudly on facebook to show off. But.... After going to Nail Space, I am deeply shamed. Hahaha... My so-called DIY manicure was not even close to what the real professionals could achieve. I would tell u why in a bit.

So... I received a mail from Jean one fateful day. After being inseparable twins with Titus for 19 months (especially because he breastfeeds only by latch on). I hardly left his side to do something for myself apart from work, hardly any "me time". Jean invited me to try out their nail-art service and I was so flattered I could not decline her invitation. So came the big sacrifice. Titus had to be Mummy-less for a few hours. Stress for my Dad, stress for my mum and Me? No! For me is happy excursion! Hahaha...

Jean is the owner of Nail Space (http://www.nailspace.info/page/1907/). She has 2 outlets in Singapore. Kindly, she asked me which outlet will be more convenient for me. I chose the People's Park Complex outlet which was at the #03-02 unit of the complex.

Before that day, I prepared my Dad and Mum and informed my Hubby that I was going to MIA for a few hours. To be frank, my mum panicked. Hehe... I went ahead with my plan nevertheless.

So came the day. I dressed up in the morning at my planned timing and put on my makeup. I brought Titus into the room to nurse before I needed to make my way down town. Good timing. He was very co-operative. He nursed for quite a while and in my heart I felt that it should last him till his lunch and until I came home. After I excused myself from Titus with a tiny lie, I sneaked out. LOL!

Happily I took the shuttle-bus and secretly laughed that I had to remind myself that I did not have a baby on me and that equals to no reserved seats for me. I was overwhelmed with joy even by standing and riding the bus because I was without a baby. Wahaha...

I checked the time again while standing in the train and it was perfect. I should reach Outram MRT 5 minutes earlier than the booking time. Just perfect. I chose to alight at Outram MRT because I was lazy to change trains. Then I remembered that to go to People's Park I had to still walk a bit. Dang! I forgot. So much for good planning. I PM-ed Jean and told her I would be late and when the train reached Outram MRT. I sprinted towards People's park Complex. Hehe... I reached on time. Whew!

In case you guys are lost as to which is People's Park complex because there is another People's Park Centre. It's this one.

Sorry for bad photos because my DSLR camera is at my other home. I had to snap pictures with my reliable Samsung Note 2.

As you can see, the minute you are out of the Chinatown MRT station, you will see the complex!

Benefit for those who has never seen the inside of this complex. Some pictures of the interior. Very buzz-ling with activities and very oriental. I really enjoy this place. I grew up in Chinatown and People's Park Area is very familiar to me. My childhood shopping paradize!

I went up the escalator in the photo and went to the opposite direction. The unit is near where I am standing to shoot this picture (top picture). So I now take a photo from the opposite of the unit to show you - below picture.

After you go to 3rd floor, at the escalator, turn around and you will see the unit which is where the pink neon lights are. It is inside a hair salon. This is the closer shot below.

This is a picture looking through the hairsalon and at the nail parlor.

This cosy place is where I did my nails!

Then I will come to the part where I show off my ugly nails before the makeover!

As many of my regulars know. I have very rough hands and legs = ugly fingers and toes. Inherited dry skin from my parents. So please forgive me if it is not exactly a pretty sight. But try to focus on the wonderful artwork that the artist managed to put on my hideous looking fingers :).

Zoe was the manicurist/nail technician who was servicing me. She was nice and patient. I loved the fact that she listened to my non stop yada. I had a tendency to talk non stop when I am at a salon. Regardless hair or nail salon. You know it is a form of stress relief. Hehe... We discussed and she asked me what was my interest. I showed her my hair pin. Demonstrated in the SP below. I told her I would love to have something so sweet my followers will love also.

She showed me a pile of nail arts they did before, neatly displayed in an acrylic display container. The range is so wide! Also, they had albums and photos and so much! I fell in love with the checkers and poka dots I saw. I told Zoe to choose the shades of pink that suits me and she did! I was blown away by this little lass. She really is a 40 years old woman trapped in a 20 years old lass! She was mature and composed and she knew her stuff! Her confidence really affected me. I felt so safe in her care!

I loved the way Zoe shaped my nails. Something which is really
important as well for good manicure. This is another big point that explained
importantly why my DIY manicure did not look as professional. She also
took away all my dead skin which I had PLENTY after 1 year and so many months (I did not go to any salon after I gave birth)! Zoe made sure that every detail was taken care of - cuticles were pushed
back, peeling skin were removed.

As she went on to do the buffing. I asked her, "Why is it my gelish that I do myself peels off like a sticker?"

She explained to me that it is because they take the time to help us buff and smoothen the surface in order for the adhesion to be much better. Oh! I missed this step.

Then she went on to do the coatings layer by layer. She was patient and not rushing. She was carefully making sure every stroke is precise and no bubbles! I realised that she was not greedy like I was when I did my own gelish. I recalled when I DIY, my completed gelish looked like at least 3 mm thick - dissected view. Hahaha... No wonder my finger felt warm LOL!

For those who has never tried gelish nails. It is very fast and neat as compared to the classic nail polish painting. It dries up very quickly because they use UV lamp to dry up gelish nail polish layer by layer. It takes about 90 seconds each time she puts my nails in to dry. So quick! Also, she was really careful with the gel around the crystal "gems" to make sure they will not drop off so that Titus would not be at risk of picking them off the ground to eat (he is quite a vacuum cleaner). So considerate!

After the polish dries up, it will not run or drop off easily. In fact you need to soak it if you intend to remove it. Which you can easily do it for below $20 at normal salons. In this case, if you have a package, they usually can include soak off for you! :) The set back of DIY gelish will be the soak off. Chore! If the professionals do it for you, it is really fast!

I find that the staffs that work with Jean here are really diligent and patient and sweet! I was early so the customers were not in yet and thus the other two manicurist did not need to serve. However, I observed that they used the time to practise nailart on dummy nails! So hardworking! I could really sense that they loved their job and enjoy doing art. When another customer came in, I saw that they were patient and dealt with the customer who was a little bit fickle minded rather nicely and humbly. I did not sense any annoyance and they did not give me the "if you are not going to sign package then just shut up do the express nails and leave" attitude. No forcing. No unhappy clients. Great experience guaranteed.

I guess with such good service it is only a matter of time they gathered a big pool of regulars. The only set back for this particular outlet could be that they are right inside a hair salon. It is really not easy for people to notice the nail salon. I do hope with my effort to write this lengthy blog, I can gather a little of my Tinglish followers to give her some traffic. :) Please help me fulfill my wish!

Now, let me show you some of the finished product! As I have said, please ignore my wrinkled fingers. I really "ren ming" (resigned to my fate)... They are ugly hands but they have MAGIC mind you! Hahahah, they are the hands that transformed many girls ok?? But... but... the nail art is really neat and nicely done!

No filter so u can really see the colour and my ah ma skin texture

And they were kind enough to help me match my colors for my classic pedicure.

Just about when the nails were almost done, Jean breezed into the parlor and we had some conversations on and off because she was settling some work. She was really humble and nice! Such a nice person will have nice happy workers and that equals to happy clients!

After I said my goodbye, I went off to "recky" the surrounding. People's Park Complex is happening! Many of my followers know I am crazy about Hong Kong and the atmosphere of this place really reminds me of Hong Kong! The music and the street food!

There were plenty of stalls there but I was too shy to take pictures so make do please hehe...

Half looking at where I was going and half looking at my pretty nails I made my way to the hawker stall Zoe recommended.

My pinky toes

I ordered the mala dry fry (directly translated) - my favourite food currently. They have it all over Singapore like a rising trend in various food courts. I had reasons to believe that the food this stall has to offer is good because they gave queue number tags (like in a clinic) after you ordered. This is what it is.

It is as tasty as it looks messy, we ate every scrap of it. It is the best so far I have tried!

After that I ventured to the ground floor at the foyer facing the MRT exit. There were tonnes of street food from China! I was very drawn to the curry fish balls because it reminded me of Mongkok street food. I paid $2 for 5 balls in a cup. Then bought sugar cane drink to down the fishballs with. I walked towards the taxi stand as i put the first fish ball into my mouth. Immediately, I did a U-turn. To buy more! Lol!

After that, I really made my way to the OG taxi stand to end my excursion. I definitely did not forget about camwhoring in the cab with my new nails!

Overall I really enjoyed today. I seriously recommend to mummies who need some "me time" to spend their peaceful few hours like I did today. But! Please remember to start your itinerary with Manicure at Nail Space! I will be back!

(I realised I received a miss call from panicky mummy about Titus looking for me when I got on the cab... Titus was fine actually... He was just sticky... :)

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About Me

I am the founder/creator of A NICTAY PRODUCTION. I started
collecting my portfolio in the Year 2010. I am a self-taught image
consultant and photography artist. I specialize in FEMALE MAKEOVER
PORTFOLIOS.

I named my work A NICTAY PRODUCTION and not
photography because my service includes everything from makeup to
hairstyling, to art directing, to photography and finally photo
editing. It is a full production and not just a simple photo-shoot
which normal photographers can offer. As I am an all-in-one-person
production, I offer a much higher level of comfort and trustworthiness
to my customers. I hold integrity in what I do and respect my customer's
trusts in me.

My image consultation interest started out
at a young age. I used to dress up for myself, then for my friends and
family with my own vision of beauty. As my portfolio speaks, my sense
in beauty was recognized and accepted by most of the girls I have
transformed. My first photography attempt in recording down a
transformation was using my mobile phone camera. I realized my talent in
this area and used my own self portraits for my very first showcased
portfolios. The portfolios that I uploaded created awareness very
quickly among my personal friends who started to inquire about having
portfolio done for them.

Sexy boudoir/nude/half-nude
shoots was always in the fantasy of many women but they being a normal
working class or housewife or mother, will find it hard to trust and
engage just any photographer to realize this fantasy for them. Me being
a female photographer gave these ladies a very good avenue to realize
their dreams. My customers comes from all walks of life and over a big
range of ages.

The other batch of female customers are
those who did not realize that they too had the potential of becoming a
beautiful woman. I take pride in every session I do that successfully
escalated the self confidence of these beautiful women. Friends of
these customers have given me titles such as magician and genius in my
testimonials for the successful transformation I have done.

Apart
from sexy and transformation shoots, I too offer beautiful girls who
knows how beautiful they are but have not met a photographer that they
can trust to produce satisfying portfolios for them. I strive to
achieve a professional looking portfolio so that these girls may have
beautiful photographs of themselves which they could only admire of the
models in the magazines.

Over a period of 1 year or so, I
have touched the hearts of more than 1 hundred woman with my sincerity
and effort to make them beautiful in the productions I have created and
executed. I feel very lucky that I have the opportunity to realize my
dreams and I will continue to strive to excel in what I am doing, keep
learning and improving to serve all my loyal customers better! I love
all my fans/friends! Thank you for your undying support! Muacks!!!!!!!!